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inc copy provided by edelweiss plus collette lives in greenwich village new york city in 1929 with her mother older sister genevieve and younger brother antoine their father died in a factory accident when collette was two and she has always been frail her mother won t allow her to work even though times are tough and the family could use the income she is only allowed out once a week to get groceries at walter s store a clerk there claude has captured her attention on a weekly grocery run collette sees walter crying it turns out it would have been his brother william s 40th birthday but he died on the titanic in 2012 perhaps emboldened by this personal exchange and realizing that the store is short staffed collette offers to help clean and organize the store in order to pay down her mother s debt she enjoys feeling useful and working at the store is a timely move the stock market crashes and her family are concerned about their jobs antoine s pay is cut and he considers leaving school at the mother s work all of the negro women the term used at the time and also in the book are let go collette is a little surprised at how vehemently her mother defends black people and is surprised at how people like her mother s friend nadine are treated as she continues to work at the store she hears more and more about walter s experiences on the titanic collette has long had dreams about being saved from drowning and these all start to make more sense some of her mother s obsessions like making sure she and her siblings stay out of the sun also are easier to understand when family secrets are revealed eventually collette s disobedience is found out but life improves for the family strengths there are some great twists in this that i don t want to spoil because they are very clever and make a lot of sense looking at both the titanic disaster and the great depression was a good idea especially with the multicultural inclusions hearing details from walter was a good way to introduce them the way collette s poor health was treated didn t surprise me since her treatment of complete rest all the time was fairly widespread but it was good to see her break out on her own and get a job to help support her family this is exactly the kind of book i would have adored in middle school the light romance between claude and collette was a nice touch as well weaknesses i could have used fewer repetitions of collette s dream since this book is already a bit long i could tell the major plot twists early on but young readers won t necessarily grasp why collette couldn t be out in the sun what i really think readers who liked nielsen s iceberg might find this lacking in details about the titanic although there are plenty it s a book more like haddix s uprising or books about the great depression it makes perfect sense to combine these two historical events and i will definitely purchase this for my collection posted by ms yingling at 5 00 am no comments tuesday april 28 2026 life on the moon and the lovely dark swanson matthew and behr robbi illus life on the moon april 14 2026 by knopf books for young readers e arc provided by netgalley leo brightstar is going to live on the moon in the first colony with his father a scientist who has recently separated from leo s mother who will remain on earth to work in a zoo before he even gets settled his father gets a message that there is a rover on the wrong side of the moon and he has to investigate leo is left in their dome where an advanced smart speaker takes care of him the dome gives him the rules number one is that there is no life on the moon and number two is not to ask questions this is very difficult and the dome does answer some since leo has many there is a constable who is evil and a deputy who visits leo and tells him not to admit that his father is missing the deputy takes leo to school where leo is reminded by his teacher ms dulcet that children should not ask questions leo meets bobby and witnesses a large green bug which is cleaned up by a space roomba eventually he steals a rover to go search for his father and gets drawn into an odd world with space creatures bobby follows him out which is great when leo crashes the rover but bobby is eaten by a hortle leo meets friendlier creatures the valrooten the leader of which he names mitchell when mitchell is eaten by a hortle on his 100th birthday leo is sad but the valrooten all share a common hive mind so he consoles himself by talking to mitchell 2 eventually leo locates bobby his father and his father s friend sally in a hortle hairball but decides that the colony government should not be trying to hide or kill the native species and vows to fight for them and sends bobby back to earth with a message strengths i love the illustrations and the way that the text is woven around them the idea of living on the moon is always intriguing and this has some more space adventure rather like bradford s lunar landers blastaway or swiedler s in the red the space creatures are a little goofy but the message about saving indigenous creatures is a timely one bonus points for having leo s parents separated instead of dead weaknesses like swanson and behr s ben yokoyama and the cookie of destiny this book got a bit goofy even though leo is supposedly 12 he seems much younger and even with the illustrations 320 pages is a long book for elementary students i also found the ending confusing what i really think this is a good choice for reader who liked lubar s emperor of the universe series barnett s the two headed chicken or angleberger s the first cat in space ate pizza fox matthew the lovely dark april 21 2026 by union square kids e arc provided by edelweiss plus eleanor lost her grandmother in the first wave of the covid pandemic she saw her ghost briefly right after her death but hasn t seen her since even though that would be a welcome occurrence her father is a history teacher in their croyden neighborhood where ellie likes to hang out with her neighbor and best friend justin after ellie recuperates from a bad round of flu her parents tell her that her mother is expecting riding on the trains ellie and justin both see children who look exactly like them which is worrying since ellie s grandmother told her to watch out for fetches on a school field trip to see some roman mosaics there is a flood in the area and ellie and justin both drown they ve recently heard the story of the underworld and orpheus and eurydice and after traveling on the river styx they find themselves trapped there ellie really wants to get back home to meet her new brother but will she and justin be stuck there my daughter eleanor lost both of her grandmothers in the pandemic so this is certainly a true to life premise the use of mythology is interesting and readers who liked destefano s the girl with the ghost machine edge s the many worlds of albie bright or shusterman s skinjackers series will enjoy this book posted by ms yingling at 5 00 am no comments monday april 27 2026 mmgm double crossed and anna jane and the infinite summer it s marvelous middle grade monday at always in the middle and imwayr day at unleashing readers barone rebecca e f double crossed the wwii spies who saved d day april 28 2026 by henry holt and co byr e arc provided by edelweiss plus if you have avid readers of world war ii narrative nonfiction this is the book they need it s a cross between seiple s nazi saboteurs hitler s secret attack on america and janeczko s secret soldiers how the u s twenty third special troops fooled the nazis both published in 2019 but centers on operation bodyguard and several of the double agents that were instrumental in making it a success starting with a list of the many historical figures involved barone draws us in to the world of espionage and intrigue that existed during this time period the thing that baffled me was how some of these agents were able to be hired by the government with absolutely no skills or background at all in intelligence work two of these people johnny jebsen and duško popov were wealthy and looking for adventure juan pujol garcia was a poultry farmer who had a lot of trouble being accepted and only got taken on when his wife approached the us with his credentials perhaps my favorite is lily sergueiew who was russian and was recruited by the abwehr she wanted to be sent to britain so that she could be a double agent but really wanted to take her small dog babs with her she was promised that she could but this didn t work out and she harbored a lot of ill will against the british when she had to leave the dog behind i m not sure how it occurs to someone that it s a good idea to be a xx agent double cross this tripped me up when i read it the stakes are high and the amount of lying one would have to keep straight would be enormous since the british had managed to crack the codes developed by the german enigma machine but the germans didn t know this there was a lot of work involving codes operation bodyguard was essentially a plan to distract the germans from fortifying the area around normandy ahead of the planned allied d day operation the planning surrounding this was enormous not only were there the messages and misleading information passed by the double agents but a vast infrastructure of fake harbors and equipment i d read about the soldiers parachuting into areas with gramophones and records of gunfire and talking but even with the pictures in the book and barone s excellent descriptions it s hard to imagine how vast the operation was of course d day was as successful as something that contributed to the death of so many men could be the nazis were turned back and the war changed what was interesting was how the double agents were involved and what happened to them afterwards again i was fascinated with sergueiew there are excerpts from her journal which things like a horrible thing for a double agent to keep and she was so bitter and disenchanted with the whole experience but kept going more or less out of spite and because she enjoyed having the power to take down the whole operation while wwii is not my favorite thing to read about and i struggled mightily to keep all of the moving pieces of this narrative straight there are always students who want more information double crossed is a great length has plenty of pictures and facsimiles of things like the initial plan for project bodyguard and ends with resources for additional reading the teachers at my school are requiring that students read more narrative nonfiction so this is a perfect book to purchase for a middle school or high school collection along with barone s other titles like race to the bottom of the earth surviving antarctica unbreakable the spies who cracked the nazis secret code and mountain of fire the eruption and survivors of mount st helens of course what i am really looking forward to is her mind not the timid a fictional book about the women s suffrage movement in 1917 set to potentially come out in 2027 classey paige anna jane and the infinite summer e arc provided by netgalley april 28 2026 by random house books for young readers spoilers in this novel in verse anna jane who has just finished 7th grade is excited to return to camp chester to be with her friend amaya she will miss her mother who works as a waitress and saves up all year in order to send her to camp and even then relies on a scholarship anna jane has brought several books with her and is keeping a journal on the advice of her language arts teacher ms zhang who encourages her to write camp starts out fairly normally with a helpful but reserved counselor bridget and a cabin full of girls including the shy morgan anna jane is worried when she sees bryce who just graduated from her middle school because she is afraid that he will tell people that she is poor she also thinks he is rather cute when the cabin is allowed to go to town for pizza and a movie they realize that something is wrong they only see four people in town and they have spotty cell service anna jane does hear from her mother but only a cryptic text that something is wrong and her mother is coming to get her back at the camp the girls eavesdrop on the counselors and know that something has taken out all of the internet phone and cable service and people are ill some parents show up to retrieve their children but anna jane s mother never comes hayes the director tries to establish control which the counselors like rob don t like and nurse collins tries to let the children know what is going on and also takes good care of them when a little boy thomas is found in the woods more details about the problem emerge there is a sickness and his parents left him alone while they went to the hospital there is talk that it s an act of bioterrorism that has infected the food as the summer drags on the campers are put to work and all supplies must be pooled morgan starts trying to determine what is wrong with the spiders around the camp there s already been a dead mutated wolf that the children found some counselors leave and anna jane has a falling out with amara when she spends time with the charismatic pooja the children start hunting and fishing but try to hold on to a routine schedule of camp activities things get worse when thomas becomes ill and dies and rob talks about leaving camp and taking children with him bryce s sister zoe who is rob s girlfriend manages to talk him in to leaving with just her morgan thinks she has some insight into why the campers haven t gotten sick but nurse collins collapses and sinks into a diabetic coma since hayes has already abandoned the campers things become even more dire luckily zoe shows up to let the children know that while most of the people in the us have died and things are not looking good for their relatives there are people who have survived and they are banding together amaya chooses to remain at the camp but anna jane goes with zoe bryce and pooja with the team of survivors strengths i loved the premise of this and could totally see the 7th grade me constructing a rich fantasy of me leading all of the campers at camp kiwatani as we survived with nurse collins as the only adult anna jane and i would have made short work of the idiots rob and cody one of the best parts of this was the sweet romance with bryce if the world is ending a tween romance would definitely make things a little better bioterrorism and the concomitant disabling of the communication infrastructure would definitely be my top two ways that a dystopia would actually roll out it makes sense that a camp would have decent food stores and taking supplies from thomas neighborhood enables the group to survive without too much difficulty there s just enough tween drama to make this realistic having read this i m a little surprise there aren t more surival type stories that start at summer camp and continue when things go wrong 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